Cryptographic Attack Analysis Questions

Focuses on concrete attack vectors against cryptographic primitives and systems and on understanding the attacker capabilities and conditions required for each attack. Topics include brute force and key search, dictionary and password guessing attacks, known plaintext and chosen plaintext attacks, chosen ciphertext attacks, replay and downgrade attacks, timing and other side channel attacks, protocol level flaws, and how each attack maps to broken security properties. Candidates should be able to explain prerequisites for attacks, realistic exploitability, mitigations and detection strategies.